Creative Review articles from May 2006

Creative Review archives from May 2006

Editorial: Patrick Burgoyne.(Brian Eno)(Editorial)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... Brian Eno has a new project - a kind of super-screensaver called 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno. It mixes together original artworks in the aforementioned 77 million diferent combinations, creating an ever- shifting screen-based piece for...

LETTER: Blackpool's Missed Opportunity.(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... Re: Johnson Banks' Blackpool Pleasure Beach identity [April and above]: As someone who was raised and worked in Blackpool, I'd like to inform Michael Johnson that he is wide of the mark. The "dreadful default setting" in Blackpool isn't...

LETTER: Missing PETA's Point.(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... Milly Shaw [Letters, April] either has no sense of humour or no concept of satire, or both, as she completely missed the point of PETA's Milk Gone Wild ad [above]. The ad pokes fun at men who enjoy risque entertainment like Girls Gone Wild,...

LETTER: Give A Damn About Consumers.(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... I thought I'd drop you a line responding to the recent article about the Walkers Crisps core range re-branding [Crit, April]. Being the creative director responsible for the work I naturally have an opinion. One of the challenges we face...

School Photos.
May 8, 2006... Between 1992 and 1994, US photographer Judith Joy Ross embarked on a project that would take her back to the schools she had attended as a young girl in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a former coal-mining region of north-east America. Her plan was to...

AllofUs Get Their Groove On.(AllofUs creates backdrop visuals for Robert Hylton's show, Verse&Verses)
May 8, 2006... Interactive design studio AllofUs has created the backdrop visuals for dancer and choreographer Robert Hylton's forthcoming contemporary dance show, Verse&Verses. Hylton, together with his company Urban Classicism, will perform the new work...

Of the Beck's scafold.
May 8, 2006... Photographer and artist David Hiscock explains how, with the aid of a team of scafolders, he built and shot the latest poster campaign for Beck's Futures I Was The Creator CR: What was your role on this and how did you end up working on...

One to watch: Khayalethu Mtshali.
May 8, 2006... Khayalethu Mtshali (1) won the Grand Prix at this year's Construction New Media Awards with Yoghurt (2), a short Flash animation. He explains the ideas behind the film: "I live in a hot country and I grew up in a semi-arid, desert...

THE CR Photography Annual.
May 8, 2006... Creative Review announces the launch of the Photography Annual, a showcase of the finest photography from around the world. Following on from our highly acclaimed Annual, Creative Review is launching a version just for photographers. Entries...

Crit.(The panel of 'Consumer Reports' examines the brand and the products of Apple)(Interview)
May 8, 2006... To marks its thirtieth anniversary, we asked our panel to examine Apple: the brand and the products CR: What are the major ways in which Apple has had an impact on the visual communications industry? Richard Seymour: In the last six...

The culture business.
May 8, 2006... A new survey of identity programmes for cultural clients examines graphic design's role in the success of an institution. Emily King explains Culture is a nebulous term. By common consensus, the more of it we have the better off we are,...

Inside jobs: Barbed.
May 8, 2006... A design studio in a prison? Mark Sinclair visits HMP Coldingley, home to an intriguing new initiative In trying to attract that all-important first commission, most newly formed design studios will boast that they offer something unique...

Today's designer: Warts and All.
May 8, 2006... As this month's Showcase illustrates, designers today accommodate work for both worthy causes and commercial clients. They may not be pursuing the Modernist ideal of socialist Utopia, argues Quentin Newark, but, in their own way, designers...

The open opportunity.
May 8, 2006... Bruno Maag explains why Open Type marks an exciting leap forward for anyone working with fonts Speaking as a type designer and font engineer, I think OpenType is the best thing since sliced bread. It has the potential to offer...

Uncomfortable Viewing.
May 8, 2006... Graphics was overwhelmed by sexy products at this year's Indaba, says Patrick Burgoyne If it's February, it must be Cape Town and the Design Indaba, so successfully has the three-day event embedded itself into the designworld calendar....

PICK OF THE MONTH: Will Young video.
May 8, 2006... Following his bizarre placing of Dizzee Rascal in a 50s-style children's TV puppet show, director Dougal Wilson pillages more classic British telly in his latest promo, for Will Young's Who Am I? The video sees Young, complete with beige...

PICK OF THE MONTH: National Lottery commercial.
May 8, 2006... The National Lottery seems to have at last realised what we've all known for a long time now, that their ads just aren't working. So in a sharp change of direction, they have abandoned the quirky but unfunny spots featuring Fay Ripley and...

PICK OF THE MONTH: SOCA identity.(Serious Organized Crime Agency)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... Things to avoid when naming your new official crime fighting body: 1) That the abbreviated name isn't also that of a type of Trinidadian dance music. 2) Calling it an "Agency" when something nice and British like "Squad" or "Force" should...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Whiskas campaign.
May 8, 2006... It's not easy making pet food advertising charming, but TBWA\London has achieved it with this elegant campaign for Whiskas cat food. The campaign, which is integrated across TV, poster (shown here), DM, online, POS and in-store, uses a...